Long-lived radical cations of monocyclic arenes at room temperature obtained by NbF5 acting as an oxidizing agent and counterion precursor

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 5268-5272

  Marchetti, Fabio ^a   Pinzino, Calogero ^b   Zucchini, Stefano ^c   Pampaloni, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Density functional calculations; Dialkoxyarenes; Epr spectroscopy; Niobium pentafluoride; Radical cations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; COUNTERIONS; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; DIALKOXYARENES; ELECTRON DENSITIES; EPR SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDIZING AGENTS; RADICAL CATION SALT; RADICAL CATIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BENZENE; NIOBIUM; OXIDATION; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

POSITIVE IONS;

EID: 77954858130     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201001572     Document Type: Article

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